About this role
Job summary
This role is to help provide leadership and oversight for physical health psychological services across the Specialist Community Division and wider Trust. The postholder will provide professional line management supervision and clinical oversight for psychology service leads within the Specialist Community Division and work closely with Divisions triumvirate and senior leadership team to ensure psychological thinking and trauma informed principles and practice are embedded across the Division. They will ensure psychological profession have a voice and representation at the most senior level within the Division. They will work with CPPO and Divisions leadership to help develop psychological provision and psychological informed thinking across the Division and wider Trust physical health services.
The role will also have a Trust wide capacity to help develop clinical innovations, effectiveness and research across health psychology within the Trust. A key part of this role is to develop trauma informed principles across physical health services. They will work closely with Trust transformation programmes to help with Trust strategic objectives. The role will be evenly split between the Division and Trust wide responsibilities.
Main duties of the job
Monitoring the on-going and cumulative effect on staff working in highly emotionally charged environments; and developing effective systems of support, including, as appropriate, psychologically informed de-briefing processes that maintain and where possible enhance patient experience and safety; and where necessary developing alternative staff interventions and practices, advocating and delivering them.
Take an active professional lead role in research and evaluation in wide range of areas across psychological provision within the Division.
To initiate and implement project management, including complex audit and service evaluation, with colleagues within the health service and across the agencies to help develop and improve services to patients and their families. To be oversee development of research within the defined service area and relevant Psychological Therapies Service.
To keep up to date with research developments in therapies, which are relevant to psychological and mental health services under professional leadership, and to follow evidence-based practice and a reflective scientist-practitioner approach as is central to the Psychological Therapists role.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Doctoral-level qualification in applied psychology (or its equivalent for those trained prior to 1996) as accredited by the BPS, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology (e.g., Clinical, Counselling, Occupational). Registration as an HCPC regulated Practitioner Psychologist. Additional leadership and/or management training.
Desirable
Qualification in supervision. Registered with the British Psychological Society.
Experience Essential
Assessed extensive experience of working as a Consultant Psychologist, including additional extensive post qualification experience within physical health psychology and/or clinical neuropsychology. Extensive experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including inpatient, outpatient, community, primary care, residential care settings including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse. Extensive experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients psychological care and treatment, specially around health psychology, and working within the context of a multidisciplinary team. Extensive experience of teaching, training and professional and clinical supervision. Evidence of highly specialist expertise in the delivery of evidence based and high intensity psychological interventions, in particular around health psychology. Extensive experience of professional management of qualified and pre-qualified clinical psychologists. Demonstrable evidence of significant specialist clinical supervision within a scientist-practitioner framework, including individual supervision, group supervision and case presentations, in particular in the field of health psychology. Experience in audit and evaluation of clinical services. Experience of NHS management tasks and negotiating with NHS managers, professionals, colleagues and other agencies. Extensive experience of representing the profession in policy and practice fora. In depth understanding of trauma informed principles and care. Experience of the application of psychology in different cultural contexts. Knowledge and experience of working with other relevant client groups within physical health and clinical neuropsychology. Extensive experience working with other client groups who have highly complex psychological problems. Extensive experience of working within a multicultural framework. Extensive experience of operationally and/or professionally managing other Psychologists and Psychological Professionals.
Desirable
Evidence of peer reviewed publications, presentations at conferences, or similar contributions. Experience of relevant local and national roles e.g. as a National Assessor, as a committee member for Special Interest Groups, or within the British Psychological Society or Association of Clinical Psychologists. Experience of establishing, developing and maintaining partnerships with Higher Education Institutes.
Additional Criteria Essential
Skills in the use of highly complex methods of psychological assessment intervention and management frequently requiring sustained and intense concentration. Ability to use the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills to convey and receive highly complex / sensitive information effectively requiring empathy and reassurance in a highly emotive atmosphere and the ability to overcome psychological resistance to potential threatening information whilst maintaining a high degree of professionalism at all times. High level ability to communicate effectively at both a written and oral level complex, highly technical and clinically sensitive information to clients, their families, carers and a wide range of lay and professional persons within and outside the NHS. Skills in providing consultation and supervision to other multi-disciplinary professional and non-professional groups. Ability to manage staff (including line management) and negotiate specialty issues. Skills in providing consultation to other professional and non-professional groups.Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology, including complex multivariate data analysis as practiced within the field of clinical psychology. Knowledge of legislation and its implications for both clinical practice and professional management. Ability to design and implement policy for services and to propose service changes that impact beyond that area of activity. Ability to plan a clinical service and to formulate a long term strategic plan which may involve uncertainty. Evidence of continuing professional development as recommended by the BPS. Formal training in supervision of other psychologists. Extensive experience in the supervision and line management of other Psychologists, Psychological Professionals and other disciplines. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific complex or difficult to treat groups. Deep understanding of NHS strategy, regulation, workforce challenges, and policy context. Strategic thinking with the ability to translate psychological insight into organisational action Excellent leadership, facilitation and communication skills. Ability to articulate and interpret clearly the role of the psychological professions based upon a good understanding of the framework of government and national professional policy. Demonstrable commitment to supporting and promoting the needs of a diverse population. Highly developed knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies in the field of health psychology Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of complex work procedures and clinical practices such as organisational development, mediation, coaching & mentoring, continuous improvement, change management etc.
Desirable
A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi professional and uni- professional audit, and a wish to continue to develop expertise in the service area. Systemic or organisational consultancy skills- Advanced supervision or reflective practice facilitation- Understanding of NHS legal and regulatory frameworks. Proactive and innovative approach to problem solving.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address Tatchbury Mount
Calmore
Southampton
Hampshire
SO40 2RZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)